Spoken like a true registered sex offender. Analrapist indeed.

What? Only at night? Pffft. Amateurs. It's coming up on noon here and I'm touching myself right now. At work.

Slate’s editor, David Plotz, actually said this in an interview about the redesign:

I'd like to drop some love for Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. While considered problematic by some critics, I'm of the opinion that it's still a groundbreaking bit of film analysis and film history. For those unaware, Kracauer's thesis is that you can see in…

Mad props for the nod to habitual be in AAVE.

I sympathize. I teach college English and before each class I have a "Grammar of the Day" item and a "Word of the Day" item; literally/figuratively is one of the former. I tell my students at the beginning of each semester that what is considered Standard English is arbitrary. The same is true for all languages, but…

Writers from Joyce to Fitzgerald to Twain and all the way back to Austen have used literally in the sense that today prescriptivists would say should be reserved for figuratively; they used it as an intensifier. It was only in the twentieth century that people started to raise a fuss. Check out the OE for a rundown of…

So I'm a long-time AVC/Onion reader but I don't have much of a presence in the Reasonable Discussions, to put it charitably. I'm just wondering if the Tolerability Index has become a kind of AVC free-for-all and, if so, is it a reflection of something or did it just kind of happen?

My initial reaction is similar to O'Neal's… I'm a fan of Kanye's music but I think his reaction is a bit ironic. I also initially thought the charge of racism is going too far, an example of "what you exaggerate you weaken." Then I noticed the name of the bit is Kimmel's Kid (re)Kreations… and now I feel a little like…

I'm just gonna state a personal preference: the few years that Gervais, Merchant and Pilikington hosted a radio show on XFM in London rival Gervais's and Merchant's accomplishment with The Office. It was the precursor for their podcasts (which were also strong, though unfortunately they paid steadily diminishing…

I'm sympathetic to MacDonald's stance and I find his own argument here compelling, but I'm interested in knowing how sure he is when he says that "The North American exhibitors, however, are very worried. They need bums in seats, and they’re not getting enough of them."

I found out about this news at the end of last Spring Semester and tried to get my students excited about Cosmos coming back (I teach English, and to college students who weren't alive and wouldn't be alive for over another decade when the original aired).
It was before the trailer was released too, of course, so I…

HBO confirmed it to Variety when the latter contacted the former.

Shyamalan is at best a hack and at worst a plagiarist and a fraud. The only check mark in his "win column" is for The Sixth Sense, and he cribbed that from "The Tale of the Dream Girl," an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, the 1990s children's Nickelodeon television series. The last time I checked (before today)…

@Primer I'd recommend Season 2, episode 21 ("Paradigms of Human Memory") or Season 3, episode 3 ("Remedial Chaos Theory") for examples of both execution and pure balls.

I share Sconn's counter-reaction to the reaction that the Foley interview was depressing. If you admire Foley's work with The Kids In the Hall and/or elsewhere, what he's going through in order to not be jailed is certainly depressing, but in terms of the podcast itself, I found it pretty inspiring.

I just watched all eight films for the first time, pretty much, in the last couple of months or so, and that is probably my favorite scene not involving Snape. One question, though: am I completely off-base in thinking that at the end of the scene there is the implication that Harry, if not Hermione, is tempted at…

I've tried in vain to solicit from greater Potter fans a reasonable explanation for scoring in Quidditch and how the the role of the Snitch isn't something analogous to Scruggs' simile about soccer. No luck. I understand it's a fictional game in a series of books and films ostensibly intended for children, but it…

Actually throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick… But, when a suitcase vibrates, then the throwers gotta call the police. Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while, it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo.…

Huh
I wouldn't have ever attempted an exegesis of it or anything, but I thought "Fistful of Love" was about an S&M (i.e. consensually violent) relationship. I guess I got hung up on the "I feel the whip" reference…